Depth of 500 feet reached by Navy Divers in recent test of Helium-Oxygen for air supply. Washington, D.C., Aug., 8/9/38. Record dives--deep as 500 feet--have been recently made at the Navy Yard here and off the USS Falcon Submarine rescue vessel operating from Portsmouth, N.H. by divers using Navy s
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"Depth of 500 feet reached by Navy Divers in recent test of Helium-Oxygen for air supply. Washington, D.C., Aug., 8/9/38. Record dives--deep as 500 feet--have been recently made at the Navy Yard here and off the USS Falcon Submarine rescue vessel operating from Portsmouth, N.H. by divers using Navy s" (1938). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depth_of_500_feet_reached_by_Navy_Divers_in_recent_test_of_Helium-Oxygen_for_air_supply._Washington,_D.C.,_Aug.,_8-9-38._Record_dives-deep_as_500_feet-have_been_recently_made_at_the_Navy_LCCN2016873867.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 277362.
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